Dreaminess (n.) The state of being dreamy.
Dreamingly (adv.) In a dreamy manner.
Dreamland (n.) An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
Dreamless (a.) Free from, or without, dreams.
Dreamy (superl.) Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.
Drear (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.
Drear (n.) Sadness; dismalness.
Drearihead (n.) Alt. of Drearihood
Drearihood (n.) Affliction; dreariness.
Drearily (adv.) Gloomily; dismally.
Dreariment (n.) Dreariness.
Dreariness (n.) Sorrow; wretchedness.
Dreariness (n.) Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
Drearing (n.) Sorrow.
Drearisome (a.) Very dreary.
Dreary (superl.) Sorrowful; distressful.
Dreary (superl.) Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Drecche (v. t.) To vex; to torment; to trouble.
Drecche (v. i.) To delay.
Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
Dredge (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
Dredged (imp. & p. p.) of Dredge
Dredging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dredge
Dredge (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
Dredge (n.) A mixture of oats and barley.
Dredge (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
Dredger (n.) One who fishes with a dredge.
Dredger (n.) A dredging machine.
Dredger (n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
Dree (v. t.) To endure; to suffer.
Dree (v. i.) To be able to do or endure.
Dree (a.) Wearisome; tedious.
Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.
Dregginess (n.) Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
Dreggish (a.) Foul with lees; feculent.
Dreggy (a.) Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.
Drein (v. i.) To drain.
Dreint () p. p. of Drench to drown.
Dreissena (n.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.
Drenched (imp. & p. p.) of Drench
Drenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drench
Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
Drench (v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
Drench (v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
Drench (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
Drenche (v. t. & i.) To drown.
Drencher (n.) One who, or that which, west or steeps.
Drencher (n.) One who administers a drench.
Drengage (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.
Drent (p. p.) Drenched; drowned.
Dresden ware () A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.
Dressed (imp. & p. p.) of Dress
Drest () of Dress
Dressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dress
Dress (v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
Dress (v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
Dress (v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
Dress (v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
Dress (v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
Dress (v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
Dress (v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
Dress (v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
Dress (n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
Dress (n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
Dress (n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
Dress (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
Dress coat () A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
Dresser (n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Dresser (n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
Dresser (v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
Dresser (v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Dress goods () A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
Dressiness (n.) The state of being dressy.
Dressing (n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
Dressing (n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
Dressing (n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
Dressing (n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
Dressing (n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
Dressing (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
Dressing (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
Dressing (n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
Dressmaker (n.) A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
Dressmaking (n.) The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Dressy (a.) Showy in dress; attentive to dress.
Drest (p. p.) of Dress.
Dretch (v. t. & i.) See Drecche.
Dreul (v. i.) To drool.
Drevil (n.) A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.
Drew (imp.) of Draw.
Drey (n.) A squirrel's nest. See Dray.
Dreye (a.) Dry.
Dreynt () p. p., of Drench to drown.
Dribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Drib
Dribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drib
Drib (v. t.) To do by little and little
Drib (v. t.) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
Drib (v. t.) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
Drib (v. t.) To lead along step by step; to entice.